While putting the finishing touches on this year's Best of Chicago issue, I had one of the most oft-cited lines about our fair city running through my mind. You know the one. Nelson Algren in City on the Make, remarking about Chicago's rough-edged charm: "Like loving a woman with a broken nose, you may well find lovelier lovelies, but never a lovely so real." In the 65 years since Algren made the observation, it's become, in my estimation, the most nauseating of Chicago cliches. But that doesn't mean it's any less true.